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Resource rents and economic growth : governance and infrastructure thresholds
Asongu, Simplice; Diop, Samba - 2022
This study investigates how governance and infrastructure modulate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … linear and the underlying non-linearity is contingent on existing infrastructural and governance levels. Second, evidence of … a "natural resource curse" is apparent in countries with extremely low levels of governance and infrastructural …
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The role of governance and infrastructure in moderating the effect of resource rents on economic growth
Asongu, Simplice; Diop, Samba; Emeka, Ekene; Ogbonna, … - 2024
This study investigates how governance and infrastructure moderate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … governance levels. Second, evidence of a "natural resource curse" is apparent in countries with extremely low levels of … governance and infrastructural development. Third, the favorable effect of natural resources on economic growth requires a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015057615
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Natural resources and economic growth : what is the connection?
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2001
This paper reviews the relationship between natural resources and economic growth, and stresses how natural capital tends to crowd out foreign capital, social capital, human capital, andphysical capital, thereby impeding economic growth across countries and presumably also over time....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399567
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Natural Resources, Economic Growth and Geography
González-Val, Rafael; Pueyo, Fernando - 2018
In this paper we discuss the relationship between economic growth and natural resources at a global level, taking into account geography. With this aim, our model integrates elements of the theories of endogenous growth, natural resources and new economic geography. We find that an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014111753
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Natural resource scarcity and long-run development : central mechanisms when conditions are seemingly unfavourable
Bretschger, Lucas - 2005
Using a dynamic model with non-renewable natural resources and endogenous knowledge creation, the paper analyses economic development under conditions which are generally considered as most unfavourable. We assume poor substitution between primary input factors, positive population growth and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793168
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Resources and Incentives to Reform : A Model and Some Evidenceon Sub-Saharan African Countries
De Blasio, Guido - 2001
The paper models the incentives for a self-interested government to implement ""good policies"". While good policies lead to investment and growth, they reduce the government''s ability to increase supporters'' consumption. The model predicts that resource abundance is conductive to poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400564
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Space and growth
Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2004
This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial factors. An important distinction in this literature is the one between absolute and relative location. The literature on absolute location predominantly uses non-spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342567
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Natural resources policy and essays on community and collective choice
Ostrom, Vincent - 2011
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Time Restrictions in Natural Resource Management : A Dynamic and Stochastic Analysis
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - 2004
This paper provides a theoretical analysis of time restrictions in the context of natural resource management in North America. The economic inefficiencies arising from the use of time restrictions to protect natural resources have been well documented by researchers. We first show that in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014086581
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The resource curse hypothesis : dynamic heterogeneous approach
Kim, Dong-Hyeon; Lin, Shu-Chin - In: Emerging markets finance & trade : a journal of the … 54 (2018) 10/11/12, pp. 2698-2717
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